My husband father had heart disease & I’m worried about him. Essentially — Heart disease is usually characterized by excessive tiredness, a heaviness in the legs, shortness of breath and edema of the extremities. These are just a few of the symptoms. For a myocardio infarct or heart attack there is typically extreme pressure on the chest, some say it feels like an elephant is sitting on their chest, pain that radiates to the left shoulder and/or up the neck to the jaw, shortness of breath and nausea. Now these are typical characteristics of a heart attack in a man, in a woman it can present much differently including just a feeling of unease or impending doom.

What are the common symptoms of heart disease?
what are the symptoms by that can it be suspected that the person may have heart disease? without ECG,ECO or other pathology exams
what is the LDL-C and HDL-C limit by which it can be worried that he/she may have heart attack?

Ok so I have a project due next week about heart disease. So far I have found nothing that can help me. So can you guys help me out either by giving my websites I can look at or give me a couple answers to my questions? Thank you in advanced!(:

What are symptoms one may experience if they have heart disease?

What is the number of people affected by heart disease in the United States?

How should you feel when you have heart disease what are the signs can a doctor confuse it with same symptoms as a panic attack ?? The reason I am asking i’ve been to the ER probably 3 times in 2 months im 24 years old and have done 3 EKG and blood test it was showing normal but the shortness of breath and chest pains palpitations worry me because they dont seam to go away i cant afford to go to a cardiologist no insurance any suggestions !!

Hey everyone. Please help me out because I am deciding if I should go to the Doc or not.
I am a female basketball player, age 18, who plays college ball. Recently I’ve been noticing some things that make me wonder if I could possibly have a heart condition. I’ve experienced these symptoms most of my life. From what I remember.

1- My heart sometimes flutters out of the blue when resting. I can’t tell if its just a muscle spasm or not.

2-After I really exert myself during practice when we are conditioning, I feel as though I will pass out. I see black spots and feel faint. I have NEVER passed out though.This has happened ever since Junior High and I thought it was completely normal until someone told me it wasn’t.

3-My chest aches most of the time when I work out. It’s sometimes a sharp pain and and seems to be mostly on my right side of my chest. This pain goes to my back and shoulder blades. This pain is now occurring even when I am not working out, but not all the time. Is it normal to feel chest pain? I get regular heart burn as well.

4- Until recently I have been able to breathe fairly well during exercise, but now I feel like it is more difficult.

5- After conditioning most of my teammates seem to be able to get back into drills more easily during practice. I however seem to still be recovering and sometimes feel nauseous and weak. I feel as though I can’t compete to my full potential. Is it normal to become tired so quickly?

6- During work out I cough up clear phlegm, accompanied by wheezing sometimes when I am running hard. This usually goes away the next day (Depending on how hard practice was)

Some other details- I was out for 2 months with an injury and came back towards the end of January. So i shouldn’t be too out of shape. I’ve been running everyday with the rest of the team but I still seem to be lagging behind. So can someone please tell me if these are valid signs to go to a doctor? I don’t want to overreact only to find out it was nothing and all in my head. Sorry for the length, please answer ASAP.
Also I do not smoke or drink, and am not overweight. I am physically fit and have never had any health problems.

For those of you who have had heart attacks before and lived to tell about it, can you tell me what types of things you experienced before it happened? Did you have the typical symptoms, or was it more subtle.

I’m under a great deal of stress, and I seem to have symptoms that I should be paying attention to like light headedness, nausea, back and neck pain, fatigue, tingly feeling on left side of face or hand, some shortness of breath, occasional chest pain. Sometimes my heart will beat a little faster, a quickening type of feeling.

I just don’t want to experience it and I want to prevent it if possible. I have a physician appointment in a couple of days so please don’t suggest that. I just want to know what you experienced ahead of the heart attack. Oh, I’m a middle aged Black woman if that makes a difference.

What are the signs of any type of heart diease what are allll the symptoms you can experience.. I have anxiety… and have chest pain to the left of the right breast if you were looking at me… i once in a while have this nasty ass taste in my mouth and it burns a little and sometimes i have nausea and shortness of breath ive been diagnosed with this

Bipolar-
GAD-Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Moderator Acid Reflux..

Been Checked with a cardiologist
EKG,ECG,Stress,Echo
Negative

Anxiety Disorder

*atpical chest pain*
what ever that means

At times i get a very high heart rate other times my heart rate is normal

I get Chest pain On the left side upper body where the heart is..

I know no one on yahoo answers can diagnose.. I am sick of the occasional chest pains.. even when they aren’t severe they are still bothersome and throw me sometimes into a panic

I’ve heard that “sharp stabbing/ jolting” pains that seem to be near the heart actually mean that there’s something wrong with your muscles or lungs? So what if you do happen to have heart disease- what would you feel?
I experience sharp pains throughout my chest and back. Once in the shower, my left side hurt pretty bad; I stepped out and saw my toes turning blue, as if my circulation stopped. I’m 17, kind of underweight. I just want to know so I won’t freak out at the doctor’s.

Hello all,
I am trying to get ready from my appointment with the Rhuematologist. I had a positive ANA both Homogeneous and Speckled @1:320. Well I wanted to know which of my symptoms are lupus symptoms, cause not a lot of my symptoms fit the lupus symptoms mold. It all started for me with Diarrhea, I would get randomly. Now I have almost all time and for about 2 to 6 weeks at a time it will be really bad along with stomach pains. In march it got so bad the lower left part of my colon was so inflamed you could see it when I laid down. Then I got what they thought was Bell’s Palsy for no reason at but that came and went. I don’t really get rashes but I do get sun burn really easy at times but not all the time. I have also had sun poisoning twice, oh and I black if that matters. My hands and feet swell sometimes, and last summer the knuckles swelling petty bad no color just lots of pain. In April my joints start hurting, slight at first and it was on and of. Now its all the time, and sever, with weakness in my hands. I do have a vitamin D deficiency. Shortly after the joints I started feeling dizzy all the time, the kind of dizzy where it feels like your not breathing enough. Then started getting a crackling in my neck like I had pop rocks in my neck, followed by sever pressure. I also have a sore in my nose that I have had for about 2 months. Well sometime in mid July I started getting what I thought was heart burn, but nothing I took for it would make go. My chest to my throat was on fire for 3 weeks and then it just went away. I’m very fatigued. My hair is falling from the root, about a brush full a day. I can’t focus. I feel like I’m breathing baby powder and coughing doesn’t help it go away. And last but not least, I keep having these spells where my pulse rate stays around 120, and it feels like my heart and lungs are in competition for space and oh does that hurt, I even went to the ER, and they just did an EKG and sent me home feeling the same way.

Sorry its so long but if some could please read and let me if these are symptoms of anything or if I’m crazy.
Thanks,
Brittany

What are some of the symptoms? I have breathing problems & sometimes my feet swell big. I work nights at a sit down job and I think that may be why my feet swell because when I get sleep and am moving around they dont do it.

i am 19 year old dude.
since the last year am having a real pain on my heart and my shoulder sometimes,and i can not breath very well not at all,i just find some difficulty to breath,but there is no symptoms or signs of heart attack or disease,my lips color is normal beside i do not feel dizzy.would somebody explain to me what is that???

I have had severe knee, leg, thigh, and upper arm weakness and pain in the last four months: since I did have a tick bite and another tick walking on me. I had to pull the tick’s head out of my leg, several days later…still is a scar where the bite was. Exactly what kind of test needs to be taken and now is it too late to clear the disease from my system?

Its been around 1 week maybe close to 2 weeks. I have had chest pains fromI getting up from kneeling down to pick stuff up. Or when I tense my chest up it hurts. It’s my mid to left side. It hurts when I breathe really deep although no as much as flexing. And sometimes it hurts for no reason just as a dull kind of pain it doesn’t get sharp and make me grab my heart it just sneaks up all subtle .I can’t afford doctors I just looking for suggestion I what I have

I am 32 nd have congestive heart failure. I have noticed that my Red bllod cell count is low, and my hemaglobin as well. I have heard that if these two are low then it could be anemia. Does Congestive Heart failure bring on Anemia???? Does anyone have both of these conditions?

Okay so today I had like back pain in my back, and it hurt for a good while, now I have been having pain like in the area of my heart all day, and I am feeling very tired and stuff. And i feel like my hands are numb. what do I do?

Right from the start this morning, my heart was beating irregular. It would be fine one moment but then it was almost like it skipped a few beats and then it made a few loud thumps as if it started beating again. I know that I make it sound strange. I felt so light headed and I had to close my eyes and grab onto my dresser. This has happened a few times today and a lot lately. I would say that it is because I am out of shape (out of shape meaning that I have a very fast metabolism and am skinny but I can’t walk around the block without breathing heavily) but it happens when I am standing completely still or sitting in class. I’m making a doctors appointment tomorrow but in the meantime, got any ideas?

Just curious because lately i have developed a very strong pulse which can not seem to be diagnosed by anybody or even picked up on cardiac tests, i know its stronger because when i’m at rest, my pulse can actually rock my body slightly its that strong.

Anyway i have noticed however after i eat certain heavy meals or eat alot of potato chips, my heart beats EVEN HARDER then it already is and faster too up to 90BPM and sometimes if i take a beta blocker it helps.

hi im kind of obese and recently ive started eating fatty foods and today i had this like blood rush and i felt it all over my body i cant really explain it. shortness of breath.should i be worried. and if today i start eating healthy and exercising can i reverse it without going to the doctor Just in case the doctor needs to give me a shot.